Who Takes Pat
Robertson Seriously?
From Polishifter for Pissed
on Politics
Well, I was going to try to ignore the ‘big news’ that Pat
Robertson has endorsed Water Boarder Giuliani to be the next
President. I was hoping that by ignoring it, it would just go away
on its own.
But not so fast. It’s the screaming headline on several news
websites. I'm glad Thom Hartmann spent some time addressing it
playing a priceless clip of an exchange between Falwell and
Robertson:
Robertson, Falwell Blame Americans for 9/11
Americans
United For Seperation of Church and State - Robertson, Falwell
Blame Americans for 9/11:
Forty-eight hours after terrorists attacked New York City and
Washington, D.C., while the nation was still coming to grips
with what had occurred and dealing with an extraordinary sense
of grief and loss, Robertson invited Falwell onto his program to
discuss his thoughts on what had transpired. The infamous
Religious Right leaders agreed that advocates of church-state
separation and civil liberties were to blame for the horrific
terrorist attacks because they have kicked God out of public
life.
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"We have a court that has essentially stuck its finger in
God's eye and said we're going to legislate you out of the
schools," Robertson said. "We're going to take your
commandments from off the courthouse steps in various states.
We're not going to let little children read the commandments of
God. We're not going to let the Bible be read, no prayer in our
schools. We have insulted God at the highest levels of our
government. And, then we say, 'Why does this happen?' Well, why
it's happening is that God Almighty is lifting his protection
from us."
A few minutes later, Robertson brought Falwell on, via
satellite from Lynchburg, and Falwell followed with a series of
harsh remarks of his own.
"What we saw on Tuesday, as terrible as it is, could be
miniscule if in fact, if in fact, God continues to lift the
curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably
what we deserve," Falwell said.
Robertson agreed, saying, "Jerry, that's my
feeling."
Though these words alone would have likely stirred
controversy, Falwell then began identifying specific American
groups and minorities whom he personally wanted to assign blame
for the worst terrorist strike in U.S. history.
"The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this,"
Falwell said. "And, I know that I'll hear from them for
this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the
federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out
of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden
for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40
million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really
believe that the Pagans, and the abortionists, and the
feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying
to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the
American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize
America."
Falwell concluded, "I point the finger in their face and
say, 'You helped this happen.'"
Responded Robertson, "Well, I totally concur. And the
problem is we have adopted that agenda at the highest levels of
our government. And so we're responsible as a free society for
what the top people do. And, the top people, of course, is the
court system."
Then there is this:
Pat Robertson on Homosexuals
First and foremost I have to ask, who in the hell still pays
attention to Pat Robertson? And why does his endorsement carry so
much weight?
This is the man that after 9/11 said America deserved it. This
is the man who called for the assassination of Huge Chavez. This
is the man who routinely calls for the elimination of Muslims
around the world. He’s a quack, a charlatan, a fringe radical
extremist Christian who advocates violence against those who
disagree with his world view.
I find it hard to believe that even the radical Christians
would take his endorsement seriously. Robertson wants to turn
America into a Christian Taliban-Style Theocracy. Bush routinely
appointed ineffectual unqualified graduates from Robertson’s
pseudo-law school Regent University to positions within our
government. They in turn acted to foist their religious beliefs on
to the rest of America with respect to their fringe views on
homosexuality and pre-marital sex.
If anything, this endorsement of Giuliani by Robertson puts an
exclamation point by how important it is that Rudy NOT be elected
the next POTUS. If Judy Rudy wins the Presidency you can kiss
America goodbye. We’ll be a Christo-Fascist dictatorship where
morality will be legislated and dictated.
Pat Robertson is a lunatic. He exploits believers out of their
hard earned money and uses his position of power to force the rest
of America into his world view. I guess in some ways it is easy to
see what Rudy and Pat have in common.
Time to boot up the Pat Robertson clips and show America what a
fringe lunatic this guy is. Giuliani has associated himself with
Robertson and now must suffer the consequences.
Pat Robertson calls for the Assassination of
Chavez
Pat Robertson Caught Gay Bashing During Commercial
Break
Katrina = God's Wrath
I guess Pat Robertson thinks we all suffer from short term
memory loss. It use to be in the 80's and 90's that extremist nuts
like Pat could get away with spewing their hate. The networks
wouldn't rebroadcast such gaffes...if persuaded in the right way.
Not any more. Thank You YouTube.
French tries
From Randal Graves for L'ennui
mélodieux
 "Sacré
bleu
! La technologie
américaine
est merveilleuse
! Monsieur Bush,
I cannot tell that votre
femme ees
un
robot après
tous
!"
"It's not funny Sarko,
you try having sex with one, heh,
heh."
Downstairs, the people on one of the most uninspired guest
lists in White House dinner-party reporting history (we're the
Style section, we should know), culled from Bush friends,
Cabinet members, Americans with Frenchy
names and Frenchies
with even Frenchier
names
Now wait just one damn minute. Uninspiring? Let's take a look at
the guest list helpfully provided by Mr. Stuever:
Other guests on the list: Condi,
Doro, Dick; Supreme
Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer;
in-laws-to-be John and Margaret Hager;
Sen. Mary Landrieu
(D-La.); the newly former New York Mets
pitcher Tom Glavine;
and corporate bigs
from American Express, FedEx, the Las
Vegas Sands Hotel chain, Public Storage and IBM.
The Veep himself was there, and you're telling me that he didn't
use The Force to crush a man's throat nor did he carve up a live
human baby on his plate in full view of America's best and
brightest? Right. Next thing you know, you'll be telling me that
Republicans genuinely like France again.
And over at Politique,
despite all of the proprietor's substantial expertise on
French politics, I must quibble with his comment that " Sarkozy
did briefly touch on common foreign policy challenges."
Here's part of what Sarkozy
said during his speech:
And we need also, together, to find a new balance between man
and nature, in order that we may save this planet of ours --
and not only save it, but leave it as a legacy to our children
in a better state than that in which we found it. Together we
must vanquish abject poverty, because it is on abject poverty
that terrorism worldwide feeds.
That may be the French viewpoint on things, but this is America,
dammit, and here, man owns nature like the rich own the poor. As
for terrorism, abject poverty has nothing to do with it.
Terrorism always has been, always is, and always will be because
of Über- Hitlerian
Stalinist DFH
Islamocommunistomarxianfascist
Baby-Blood-Drinking Nun-Beheading Jihadism.
You naive political junkies and you real-world views are sooooo
funny! Take a little sip of cognitive dissonance next time and
you'll feel much more relaxed.
A New Low
From Tengrain for Mock,
Paper, Scissors
For the first time, George W. Bush has
surpassed Richard M. Nixon in unpopularity in the Gallup Poll,
receiving the highest “strongly disapprove” rating for a
president in Gallup’s history.
Read all
about it.
Knowing what is happening in Pakistan,
having to sound like Musharraf's friend shows you how desperate the
situation in the war against terrorism is!
From James Joiner for An
Average American Patriot
 Lou
Dobbs: Pakistan's President, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, has carried
out another coup to preserve the status quo, and the result has
been violence and civil unrest. But chaos is hardly limited to
Pakistan.
Some 100,000 Turkish troops are massed on Iraq's northern border
eager to attack Kurdish rebels. Iran continues to defy the West in
its pursuit of nuclear weapons, while supporting Shiite insurgents
in Iraq. More of our troops have been killed this year in Iraq
than in any year since the war began, and the war has now lasted
longer than World War II. It is no coincidence that as instability
and violence spreads through the Islamic world, and particularly
in the Middle East, the price of crude oil is nearing $100 a
barrel. The United States also faces critical geopolitical and
economic challenges from Russia and China, while the U.S. dollar
plummets in world currency markets and our credit markets are
racked by a trillion-dollar subprime-mortgage crisis and nearly 2
million home foreclosures.
Lou Dobbs is right but his view of the 2008 election is off. I do
not share his optimism that people will wake up or as you know,
that the elections if they occur will be untainted. I think if
they are held they will once again be stolen. Anyway he mistakenly
believes the surprise this November will be the election of a man
or woman of great character, vision and accomplishment, a
candidate who has not yet entered the race. No way in hell unless
it is Gore! Anyway if you want to read all his thoughts Here
they are
I hate to tell him but it is a lot worse than all that. Yes this
has been going on longer than WW2 but it will be more comparable
to the Hundred Years War, the US society will come close to
failure, and the challenge from Russia and China may be financial
for now but when we attack Iran it will be militarily and world
war three will be the result in Bush's Forever War and it will not
be avoided.
What is happening in Pakistan will not be quelled and will erupt,
and then... Bush said he directed Rice to deliver this message:
"We expect there to be elections as soon as possible and that
the president should remove his military uniform." They were
the president's first public comments on the situation since
Musharraf imposed a state of emergency, suspended his country's
constitution, ousted the country's top judge, stifled independent
media and deployed troops to crush dissent. He called it necessary
to prevent a takeover by Islamic extremists. It will not be
prevented period!
Bush mixed concern for Musharraf's actions with praise for
Pakistan's cooperation in combating al-Qaida terrorists believed
to be rebuilding strongholds on the largely lawless border with
Afghanistan. "President Musharraf has been a strong fighter
against extremists and radicals," Bush said at the end of an
Oval Office meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan. Even a senior administration official, at a White House
briefing, merely called Musharraf "a friend who we think has
done something ill-advised." The official spoke on condition
of anonymity so he could talk more freely about the
behind-the-scenes thoughts of the White House. Read
Bush's comments on Musharraf
*I want to add that while musharraf is concentrating on arresting
opponents Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and assorted terrorists and
Insurgents are preparing to go after him, those nukes,
Afghanistan, and more. Anyway Former Pakistani Prime Minister
Benazir Bhutto escalated her confrontation with the government by
calling on Pakistanis to rise against the imposition of emergency
rule by Pervez Musharraf, the nation's president and army chief.
"I appeal to the people of Pakistan to come forward. We are
under attack," Ms. Bhutto told a news conference after
holding talks with other opposition leaders in Islamabad.Bhutto
vowed to lead a protest march by her Pakistan People's Party
Friday to the garrison town of Rawalpindi, which also is home to
Gen. Musharraf. The government has banned the protest, raising the
prospects for large-scale clashes between supporters of Ms. Bhutto
and security forces. You know they will happen!
*After a few days when she carefully calibrated her response to
the imposition of emergency rule by avoiding direct comments on
Gen. Musharraf, Ms. Bhutto, 54 years old, seems to be warming to
her role as the most prominent voice of opposition -- and one of
the few main opposition politicians not in jail. Wednesday, she
issued an ultimatum to Gen. Musharraf to step down as army chief
and end emergency rule by next week. "We will launch a long
march to Islamabad if he does not restore the constitution and
hold elections on schedule," Ms. Bhutto said. "How many
people can they put behind bars? We will produce so many that they
will not have enough jails." you'll be surprised! with
Musharrafs term ending on the 15th and an announcement coming on
the day before, you know they will not be on time.
*Bhutto warned the government of serious repercussions if it tried
to detain her. "God willing, there will be a flood of people.
If I am arrested, people should continue the struggle," she
said. Gen. Musharraf nor Ms. Bhutto -- both of whom have received
American support for a power-sharing deal they reached last month
but is now on hold -- will likely be able to defuse the militancy,
according to Shaukat Qadir, a retired brigadier-general who has
served extensively in Pakistan's border areas. "Both
Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto are viewed as American stooges,"
says Mr. Qadir. "This will give rise to a stronger
militancy." Read
about the rise in stakes
**This is all about support for Bush and the so called war against
Islamists and Bhutto's march Friday will be well worth watching!
It will lead to direct total chaos in Pakistan and spread from
there. With the mess Bush has created in that region, the mess he
has created in the middle east, the mess he is creating with
Russia and China over the missile shield, the mess he has made in
South America our own back yard, Bush has purposely set the world
up for his Forever War and it will not be avoided. You can only
guess what the future will bring to the world and the mess he has
made out of "our America"
Know a blog that
deserves to be featured on the Blog World Report? Contact Robert.
Ron Paul vs. Freedom
From Ron Chusid for Liberal
Values
The
Irregular Times questions why Ron Paul would have voted against a
measure to improve levees in New Orleans following Katrina. Paul has
also voted against other aide to New Orleans. The answer, which even
his supporters verify in the comments, is that Paul does not believe
this is the role of the federal government. Paul has a strange view of
the Constitution which would prevent virtually any action by the
federal government, and he is being consistent with his beliefs in
opposing these measures.
Paul’s view of the Constitution, as well as his equally strange
definition for freedom, must be considered when Ron Paul is billed as
being a pro-freedom candidate. Paul certainly deserves credit for
challenging the Republican orthodoxy on the war, the Patriot Act, and
on drug laws. This does not mean that his position is one of
supporting freedom as most of us would define freedom.
To Paul and his supporters less government means freedom regardless
of the government action. Opposing spending on post-Katrina aide is
seen as supporting freedom. Unfortunately Paul’s view of freedom is
selective. Not only does Paul find a lack of freedom in areas where
most would not, he also fails to recognize important liberties we now
possess. With his opposition to abortion rights Paul opposes
individual liberty in an area where it has far more impact on the
individual than whether the federal government spends money on
projects such as post-Katrina Aide. His vote for a federal ban on
so-called partial birth abortions undermines his claims to support
both individual liberty as well as his support for state’s rights.
The consequences of Paul placing his often socially conservative
beliefs ahead of libertarian principles is also seen in his views of
separation of church and state and the extension of liberties from the
federal government to state governments. Paul ignores both the secular
nature of the original body of the Constitution as well as the First
Amendment, which was intended to guarantee separation of church and
state. He has incorrectly claimed
that, “The notion of a rigid separation between church and state
has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of
our Founding Fathers.” He has also supported keeping
“under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, has co-sponsored
the school prayer amendment, and supported keeping
the Ten Commandments on a courthouse lawn. Paul has both criticized
secularism and claimed that the Founding Fathers envisioned a
Christian America.
The beliefs in religious freedom and separation of church and state
were radical at the time of the writing of the Constitution and it
took until the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified for Constitutional
liberties to be extended to the states. Paul’s vision of state’s
rights does not take this into account. Not only would the states be
able to restrict the rights of a woman to control her own body, but
state governments would be free to enact the rest of the platform of
the religious right. This is why Paul has received those endorsements
from far right extremist groups which see Paul’s platform as the
best way in which to impose their views on local governments.
If he had the power, Ron Paul would greatly transform the nature of
the federal government. Not only would the government be unable to
spend money on projects such as post-Katrina assistance, it would also
lose the ability to “impose” its views of Constitutional liberties
upon the states. Contrary to the view of Paul and his supporters, such
rights must be a matter of national policy and not be left for the
local level. It is far easier for conservative groups to obtain a
majority vote at a state or local level than on a national level to
impose their agenda.
The Founding Fathers understood the need to protect the rights of
the individual over the rights of the majority. The fight for liberty
remains an ongoing battle, and extending Constitutional liberties to
state governments was an important part of this battle. Whenever his
supporters promote Ron Paul as the defender of freedom, keep in mind
that their definition of freedom may be quite different from yours and
what was envisioned by the Founding Fathers.
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The worst TV show ever
From By
Ken Levine
Back from another day of picketing.
No TV cameras, no Jay Leno handing out Krispy Kremes. Just
us “Schmucks with Underwoods” (although to be more
accurate – “Schmucks with PowerBooks”.) Even if you’re
not in the guild, feel free to join us on line. And if
anyone asks what you’re working on just say a pilot for
Faye Dunaway (frighteningly pictured).
 Which
brings me to another topic:
A question I was asked at my writing seminar was,
"What do you think is the worst TV show ever?” Good
question but tough to answer. No matter what I come up
with I’m sure I’m overlooking even worse candidates.
So please feel free to chime in with your suggestions. And
if you nominate AfterMASH I won’t be offended.
Some of the turkeys I might consider are…
COP ROCK – Imagine the cops from THE SHIELD breaking
into song.
VIVA LAUGHLIN – Imagine a parody of COP ROCK.
SATURDAY NIGHT WITH HOWARD COSELL – Howard Cosell
hosted a variety show in 1975.
BLESS THIS HOUSE – a CBS sitcom starring Andrew Dice
Clay as a dad. I would have given anything to see the test
results on that pilot.
THE FAYE DUNAWAY SHOW – Maybe the scariest actress in
Hollywood once starred in her own sitcom for CBS. “I’m
ready for my four cameras, Mr. DeMille.”
 PINK
LADY AND JEFF – A variety show featuring comic Jeff
Altman and a Japanese girl group who had trouble speaking
English. People felt sorry for Jeff. I felt sorry for the
writers. And NBC passed on our pilot to put this series on
the air. Not that our pilot was great but you could
understand every word.
PUBLIC MORALS – Since Steven Bochco couldn’t make a
cop show/musical he tried a cop show/comedy. Lasted one
week. First network show to use the word “pussy”.
Those two last sentences are not unrelated.
WHO’S YOUR DADDY? -- Adopted kids have to guess their
real fathers in this worst reality show ever until we see
what great new fare the networks put on during the strike.
 DAVID
CASSIDY – MAN UNDERCOVER -- Teen heartthrob David
Cassidy as a cop who goes undercover in a maximum security
prison. And he manages to keep his pants on the entire
series.
LIFE WITH LUCY – It worked when she was 40. It even
worked when she was 50. But it didn’t work when she was
106. Lucille Ball in her last sitcom, still trying to be
zany, but instead of laughing you were just praying she
wouldn’t break a hip.
CELEBRITY BOXING – If only the celebrities were
Andrew Dice Clay and Faye Dunaway and there were no
referees…
 MANIMAL
– A crimefighter who could turn into any animal. Imagine
being read your rights by a chicken.
SUPERTRAIN – A nuclear powered bullet train that was
so big it had a shopping center and swimming pool on
board. Could send a cow on the tracks flying eight miles
into the air. Was supposed to be like LOVE BOAT. Was more
like THE HINDERBURG.
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Training
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What it was
From CDP for Aunt
Dahlia
This
post got me thinking about how language changes,
and how quickly. “Highball” is another word not
heard often anymore. I haven’t heard it since my
grandfather died in 1994. He had highballs every
evening in his basement bar (I inherited a sign he
had hanging in there that I always loved as a
child….It depicted a man with a raised glass, with
the caption “Work is the curse of the drinking
class”. When I was little, I liked the sign
because the picture was funny, and because it was
cute…handpainted wood, with a little red ribbon
from which to hang it. Only when I reached 7th grade
or so, and we were studying Prohibition in history
did I understand the joke…our textbook had a
photograph of a Women’s Christian Temperance Union
demonstration, with the women holding picket signs
that read “Drink! The curse of the working
class!” That sign hangs in my kitchen now.
Work really IS the curse of the drinking class,
isn’t it?)
My grandparents didn’t refer to their refrigerator
as a Frigidaire; it was an “icebox”, because
they remembered a time when it was literally an
icebox. My grandmother still calls it the icebox.
Her mother, my great-grandmother, age 102, refers to
the living room as the “parlor”, a throwback to
her own Victorian-era mother. I don’t think that
this use will survive the last of the
turn-of-the-20th-generation (and good thing, too; I
hear “parlor” and I think “funeral”). But it
hung on for over 100 years…compare with VCR, a
term that didn’t even exist until I was a
teenager, and is already facing extinction…my
husband recently referred to the DVD player as the
VCR, and my 6-year-old had no idea what he was
talking about (he does know what a record player is,
though…his kindergarten teacher had an old record
player so she could play old LPs in music lessons).
Everything moves faster now, and the old are more
likely to adapt the expressions of the young than
the reverse (more on that later), so today’s
colloquialisms will die out much faster than those
of 40 years ago (What up with that? Talk to the
hand. Word.)
Too Cowardly To
Look Aung San Suu Kyi In The Eye
By Rick B for Ten
Percent
Myanmar’s
military government has rejected a UN
plan for three-way talks involving Aung
San Suu Kyi, the detained opposition
leader, state media reports.
Brigadier-General Kyaw Hsan, information
minister, told Ibrahim Gambari, the UN’s
visiting envoy, that Myanmar’s generals
would not support outside
“interference”.
Gambari had earlier proposed a
meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi and Aung
Kyi, Myanmar’s labour minister, who was
appointed by the government last month to
liaise with her. Kyaw Hsan said
“currently the tripartite meeting will
not be possible”, the New Light of
Myanmar daily reported on Wednesday.
They have guns, they have warplanes, they
have millions hidden in banks, they have
torture chambers but they are scared of
sitting across a table with her. Gambari
will meet with her on Thursday at the end of
his visit (he should also meet and 3
NLD officers) that even UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed
his disappointment at for lack of progress.
Meanwhile in Britain-
A
Foreign Office minister is encouraging
people to support peaceful demonstrations
in Britain against the violent suppression
of monks in Burma.It is highly unusual for
a government minister to call for
protests, but Meg Munn, Foreign Office
minister with responsibility for the
region, said it was important to keep the
plight of the Burmese high on the agenda.
“We want to make sure this doesn’t
fall out of the news and people’s
consciousness,” said Ms Munn. “Having
got to this stage, we don’t want to let
this go away.”
Would she approve a vigil within 1Km of
parliament or would her party’s SOCPA
laws crush such peaceful demonstrations,
hmmmm? Ko
Htike has pictures of current graffiti
protesting the junta and Jotman
hears some talk that a hotel hit by a
bomb was not in fact a hotel but the
regional military HQ. Muslims
are detained for giving water to
protesting monks, elsewhere a police officer
wants out after he was ordered to shoot on
monks-
A
Second Lieutenant in the police force,
he was ordered to shoot at monks by Burma
Army troops from the Military Southeast
Regional Command, who were dressed in
police uniforms in September. According to
a friend of his, he is going to retire and
is bribing his superiors to clear his
retirement on grounds of failing heath.
And sporadic
multiple acts of dissent continue across
the country.
What If It Were
Illegal For You To Marry?
From Windspike for Educational
Whisper
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Here
is a sampling of things to come. Some of the best minds are tinkering
away on these invention prototypes for future use.
And
I was worried that Homeland Security had delivered their best shot
with the color coded terrorist fear chart. You'll rest easy knowing
the folks at Homeland Security have been busy, creating a kinder,
gentler alternative to the taser. This LED light transmits some kind
of special light wavelength that makes the person it is shined at
become (temporarily) blind & dizzy. Almost like Star Trek, Eh?
This
one, I find both disturbing and annoying. A pillow rigged with LED
lights, set to a timer. Rather than have an annoying alarm clock wake
you up, this device starts to beam a low light & continues to get
brighter over an hour's time, allegedly simulating an acutal sunrise.
What made the inventor think, if consumers can make alarm clocks fly,
they would have any reservations tossing this thing across the room
for Fido to have fun with?
I
love this invention! It is a hand you use to do CPR. It's high tech
sensors guide you through doing CPR-- if the compressions need more or
less pressure, counts compressions, prompts you to give breaths. Let's
just hope they don't manufacture it in China with lead paint.
This
is a sweet idea-- batteries that run on sugar. They use a glucose
digesting enzyme thingy to make it work.
Not
sure what to think about this invention. In order to save paper, the
ink vanishes in 24 hours when exposed to light. I can see too many
shady crooks using this technology for evil. The idea was to save
paper.
This
little darlin' runs on solar & wind, with a rechargable battery
backup. We should have had this technology up & running 10 years
ago.
Forget
about waving down a cab, grab one of these at the airport to drive
around town & return it to a regional drop off spot. They are
foldable electric one person cars.
